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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2016
Silver Spring Networks, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Cristina Seibert, Mountain View, CA (US);
William E. San Filippo, III, Los Altos, CA (US);
Paul Dietrich, Princeton, NJ (US);
Sterling Hughes, Oakland, CA (US);
SILVER SPRING NETWORKS, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A node residing within a wireless mesh network is configured to transmit a state transition message to a downstream node also residing within the wireless mesh network. The state transition message indicates a new operating state for the downstream node. Upon receipt of the state transition message, the downstream node may transition to the new operating state and then transmit an acknowledgement message back to the node that sent the state transition message. Alternatively, the downstream node may transmit the acknowledgement message back to the node that sent the state transition message first, and then transition to the new operating state.